Thursday night a long anticipated masterpiece arrives on the SyFy Channel, SHARKNADO. And I’m totally stoked. Not only does star Ian Ziering (Steve Sanders from Beverly Hills 90210) and the very tired Tara Reid, but it has tornado-born sharks descending on Los Angeles because of climate change.

Best of all we have SHARKNADO as our Monday Movie discussion with writer Thunder Levin and director Anthony C. Ferrante.

I don’t know how another sharxploitation movie could top this. Sharkquake? Teenage Zombie Nurse Sharks?

Do disaster films do better in a bad economy are they escapism like horror films?
Or Dirty Harry films where a gun nut Don Knots on Mayberry character is moved from comedy to serious at least in a teen age boys violent fantasy world.

I still think films like this are the only way climate change gets a mention among the Fox News set.
Topics that the powers that be don’t like can’t seem to get mentioned for the length of a full length film.

So was punk rock and heavy metal if society is not allowed to confront a problem directly then society tries to show its discomfort in other ways. Disaster films, Dirty Harry films, Horror films, punk rock, heavy metal the audience wants to express different feelings of discomfort.
By the way how is Clint handling his meltdown at the GOP convention some might say he cost Mitt the election.

those were a direct reaction ot atom bomb tests. Invasin of the Body Snatchers was about the commies taking over. And Village of the Giants (1960s teen flcik) was about LSD–kids take something thier little bro whips up in a lab and they GROW relaly tall (LSD sensory side effect) and defy authority